Uncapping at Capping

This was not featured prominently within the hall anyway, except legitimately at the graduands' tables, where sherry, wine, and such aristocratic beverages (lowed like the Ruatteke in flood. "Salient" noticed many bound on expeditions down the street and round the corner into the dark unknown, and, being curious, investigated. It was found that not even bananas, nor yet cigarettes were being purchased and consumed. . . .

The supper was excellent, but "Salient" never got any fruit salad—sore point-because a "young lady" grabbed the bowl, saying to her escorts, "Here, don't be weak, have i good plate of it while you can get it," and proceeded to serve it all up However that's a mere detail.